"If the American people ever allow private banksto control the issue of their money,first by inflation and then by deflation,the banks and corporations that willgrow up around them (around the banks),will deprive the people of their propertyuntil their children will wake up homelesson the continent their fathers conquered."

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Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

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in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin